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ISBN
9780061854392
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
13-10-2009
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Taal
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Uitgever
HarperCollins
Auteur(s)
Bill Bass ; Jon Jefferson
Beyond the Body Farm
A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
Bill Bass ; Jon Jefferson
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An
“excellent”
collection
of
case
studies
and
stories
from
the
forensic
anthropologist
who
founded
Tennessee’s
“Body
Farm”
(Charleston
Post
&
Courier).A
pioneer
in
forensic
anthropology,
Bill
Bass
created
the
world’s
first
laboratory
dedicated
to
the
study
of
human
decomposition—three
acres
on
a
Tennessee
hillside
where
human
bodies
are
left
to
the
elements.
His
research
at
the
Body
Farm
has
revolutionized
the
field,
helping
crack
cold
cases
and
pinpoint
time
of
death.
But
during
a
forensics
career
that
spans
half
a
century,
Bass’s
work
has
ranged
far
beyond
the
gates
of
the
Body
Farm.
In
this
riveting
book,
the
bone
sleuth
explores
the
rise
of
modern
forensic
science,
using
fascinating
cases
he’s
worked
on
to
take
readers
into
the
real
world
of
C.S.I.Some
cases
rely
on
the
simplest
of
tools
and
techniques,
such
as
reassembling—from
battered
torsos
and
a
stack
of
severed
limbs—eleven
people
hurled
skyward
by
an
explosion
at
an
illegal
fireworks
factory.
Other
cases
hinge
on
sophisticated
techniques
Bass
couldn’t
have
imagined
when
he
began
his
career:
harnessing
scanning
electron
microscopy
to
detect
trace
elements
in
knife
wounds,
or
extracting
DNA
from
a
long-buried
corpse,
only
to
find
that
the
murder
victim
may
have
been
mistakenly
identified
a
quarter-century
before.Beyond
the
Body
Farm
follows
Bass
as
he
explores
the
depths
of
a
lake
with
a
twenty-first-century
sonar
system
in
search
of
an
airplane
that
vanished
thirty-five
years
ago;
exhumes
a
fifties
pop
star
to
determine
what
injuries
he
suffered
in
the
plane
crash
that
killed
three
rock
and
roll
legends;
and
works
to
decipher
an
ancient
Persian
death
scene.
Witty
and
engaging,
Bass
dissects
the
methods
used
by
homicide
investigators
every
day
on
an
extraordinary
journey
into
the
high-tech
science
that
it
takes
to
crack
a
case.“Case
studies
and
anecdotes
from
the
field
of
corpse
identification
[with]
careful
attention
to
detail
and
the
occasional
darkly
humorous
aside.”
—Publishers
Weekly“The
real
crimes
and
mysteries
here
are
just
as
or
more
intriguing
than
any
fictional
crime
drama
.
.
.
offers
a
real-life
understanding
of
forensic
anthropology
and
the
science
behind
it.”
—Knoxville News-Sentinel
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